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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

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The Procedure of the Descended Soul

To descend means for the soul to grow into a body in the sense in which we have explained it. To enfranchise herself from the body is good, because if the soul be not the property or slave of the body in this intercourse, she nevertheless unites herself to it. And though she were universal, she becomes individual. For her activity no longer is exclusively confined to the intelligible world, although she still by nature belongs there too.

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